Meeting #18 of the NAFEMS-INCOSE Systems Modeling & Simulation Working Group (SMSWG) will be held from 9:00 to 12:00 PST on January 30, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 INCOSE International Workshop in Torrance (Los Angeles), California. Call-in meeting details have been distributed to all SMSWG members.

Panelists will cover some key groups and projects for potential SMSWG engagement:

• Modelica Association (Modelica Language and Libraries, Functional Mockup Interface, System Structure and Parameterization)
• ISO TC184/SC4 (ISO 10303 STEP, MoSSEC)
• Object Management Group (SysML V2, SysPISF, Safety and Reliability Profile)

Further details of the panel including links to additional materials will be added as the panel occurs.

SMSWG has been invited to present from 16:30 to 17:00 on Sunday, January 29 during a lineup of collaboration talks at the INCOSE MBSE Initiative Workshop. Additional reference links and materials will be added to this page to support this presentation and the potential for coordination across these groups. Please see the workshop page for additional groups presenting during the Sunday lineup.

What are the benefits that the Systems Engineering and Engineering Analysis communities can offer each other?

• Drive digitalization across the product development life cycle
  • Integrate SE into the rest of virtual engineering
    • Already called for by INCOSE 2020 Vision
  • Increase use of simulation/analysis throughout this life cycle
    • Trade Space Exploration and Optimization
    • Virtual Verification and Validation
• Provide Systems Engineering Context to analysis and design
  • Requirements, Subsystem Boundaries, Interfaces from a system architecture model
  • Compose simulation models in consistent ways from subsystem models
  • Feed performance results back to requirements and system architecture
• Help each community understand what the other can offer
  • Why a simulation analyst needs systems engineering to achieve goals of whole system
  • Why a systems engineer needs simulation to drive development faster and better
  • Contribute to each other publications, certification programs and events
• Provide common interoperability and infrastructure solutions
  • PLM/ALM/SLM/MLM/XLM (Product / Application / Simulation / Model Lifecycle Management)
  • Integration and interoperability platforms, such as OSLC / RDF Linked Data

This is an important discussion to get started and keep going. Please contribute to expanding and improving this list!

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